PANews reported on November 9 that according to Bloomberg, the founder of cryptocurrency mixing service Bitcoin Fog was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison for laundering tens of millions of dollars from darknet markets that sold illegal drugs. Randolph Moss, a U.S. district judge in Washington, sentenced 36-year-old Roman Sterlingov to 150 months in prison in a federal court in Washington. Prosecutors said Bitcoin Fog processed hundreds of millions of dollars in untraceable transactions, some of which came from known darknet markets. Roman Sterlingov was convicted of conspiracy to launder money, money laundering and two charges related to operating an unregistered remittance service.